Motorsports Are Dying?

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Kamuifanboy
No. WEC and TUSC has none of the BS trying to assist the car behind to overtake. NASCAR is the same way.
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Last time I checked, you still need skill to get around someone. DRS, KERS, ERS, none of the aforementioned can help you overtake. They only provide an aerodynamic and speed boost to get the driver close enough to the lead driver, but not help the move.

It all comes down to how you use these assists. It's like Char Aznable in Gundam says: "It doesn't matter how powerful you are if you can't hit me." That being said, it don't matter if you got it and fail to capitalise.
 
Kamuifanboy
No. WEC and TUSC has none of the BS trying to assist the car behind to overtake. NASCAR is the same way.
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Nah TUSC is just worse, and instead throwing out cautions at the end of a race for no real reason but a manufactured finish, but let's gloss over that. Or gloss over the fact that they made two race altering calls in a row that were wrong, luckily one was over turned. The other was an apology and nothing more...

Also DRS isn't nearly has dramatic and helpful as it was when first introduced, with the overtake setups of the turbo ERS package at the disposal of drivers along with MGU-K it makes passing with DRS more difficult. In reality it is a finish blow, for a driver to use that is already faster than the car he was catching without DRS in the prior two sectors of the track.
 
Kamuifanboy
It's artificial racing in my mind. Put proper tires, no drs, and no kers, Lewis Hamilton wins that race by miles. Similarly, all of the overtakes in the mid pack were artificial.
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Actually, he only won by about half a second! As much as most is now artificial, the last ten laps of the race were definately the best of F1 all over again. It was just a shame that it was only two up front fighting, not four or six. But the rest were fighting through the field. In any case, it probably won't last. But I hope it does.
 
Kamuifanboy
No. WEC and TUSC has none of the BS trying to assist the car behind to overtake. NASCAR is the same way.
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Do the initials BOP mean anything to you? All racing is manufactured to one extent or another these days. The days of all out power and speed are long gone.

dsgerbc
It's like saying there's no climate change after a single cold day.
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Did I mention climate change? Was I talking to you? After only three races with completely new rules we have seen more fighting on track in one race than the past few years combined. Make of that what you will. Personally I enjoyed the 🤬 out of it and listening to most of the commentators, press and fan sites...I wasn't the only one 👍
 
MustangManiac
Did I mention climate change? Was I talking to you? After only three races with completely new rules we have seen more fighting on track in one race than the past few years combined. Make of that what you will. Personally I enjoyed the 🤬 out of it and listening to most of the commentators, press and fan sites...I wasn't the only one 👍
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The thread is about general motorsports, not about ups and downs of a particular series.
I'm just pointing out that your argument about a single exciting race in a single series means squat. If this will go on in F1, it will attract a larger share of shrinking pie. Which is good for F1, but the pie is still gonna be shrinking.
 
Those who spoke of budgets getting bloated, it helps your argument now that Todt is going to scrap the F1 cost cap. Probably due to crying from RBR and Ferrari, but I'm sure the other two top teams may have also had a share.
 
I feel racing could hit another boom period. Motor racing has gone through down periods before- the 50s and 60s, where cars were going into the stands and it was expected you were going to die when you stepped in a Formula 1 car- and has survived it bigger and better then before
 

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